Spray-Formed, Metal-Foam Heat Exchangers for High Temperature Applications

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Salimi Jazi ◽  
J. Mostaghimi ◽  
S. Chandra ◽  
L. Pershin ◽  
T. Coyle
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Metal Foam ◽  
Nickel Foam ◽  
Inconel 625 ◽  
Arc Spraying ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Open pore metal foams make efficient heat exchanger because of their high thermal conductivity and low permeability. This study describes a novel method of using wire-arc spraying to deposit Inconel 625 skins on the surface of sheets of 10 and 20 pores per linear inch nickel foam. The skins adhere strongly to the foam struts, giving high heat-transfer rates. Tests were done to determine the hydraulic and thermal characteristics of the heat exchangers and correlations developed to calculate Fanning friction factor and Nusselt number as a function of Reynolds number for airflow through the foam. Measured heat-transfer coefficients for the foam heat exchangers are greater than those of straight flow channels at the same flow rate. A ceramic thermal barrier coating was deposited on one face of the heat exchanger using plasma spraying. The coating and heat exchanger survived prolonged exposure to the flame of a methane-air burner.

Heat Transfer Through Metal-Foam Heat Exchanger at Higher Temperature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Hafeez ◽  
J. Esmaeelpanah ◽  
S. Chandra ◽  
J. Mostaghimi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Metal Foam ◽  
Spray Deposition ◽  
Nickel Foam ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Heating System ◽  
Higher Temperature

Open pore metal foams are lightweight and offer high strength, rigidity, and a large heat transfer area per volume. They make efficient heat exchangers because of high thermal conductivity and high permeability. These heat exchangers made of nickel foam are suitable for high temperature application. They can be manufactured by shaping the foam into any desired configuration and depositing metal skins on it using thermal spray deposition method. Combustion based heating system that burns natural gas is designed to understand the heat transfer through metal foam heat exchanger at higher temperature. A test rig has been fabricated to perform heat transfer experiments. The rig is capable of generating hot combustion gases through methane-oxygen premixed combustion chamber. The design of the rig allows exposure of the thermally sprayed nickel foam to hot gases and finally, cooling the metal foam by circulating air through it. The experiments were performed on metal foam and hollow channel to measure the heat transfer enhancement of the metal foam. The surface temperature measurements were done for different flow rates of cooling air. A significant decrease in surface temperature of metal foam was observed.

scholarly journals Performance analyses of helical coil heat exchangers. The effect of external coil surface modification on heat exchanger effectiveness

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafał Andrzejczyk ◽  
Tomasz Muszyński
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Surface Modification ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Helical Structure ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Helical Coil ◽  
Tube Heat Exchanger ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Coil Heat

Abstract The shell and coil heat exchangers are commonly used in heating, ventilation, nuclear industry, process plant, heat recovery and air conditioning systems. This type of recuperators benefits from simple construction, the low value of pressure drops and high heat transfer. In helical coil, centrifugal force is acting on the moving fluid due to the curvature of the tube results in the development. It has been long recognized that the heat transfer in the helical tube is much better than in the straight ones because of the occurrence of secondary flow in planes normal to the main flow inside the helical structure. Helical tubes show good performance in heat transfer enhancement, while the uniform curvature of spiral structure is inconvenient in pipe installation in heat exchangers. Authors have presented their own construction of shell and tube heat exchanger with intensified heat transfer. The purpose of this article is to assess the influence of the surface modification over the performance coefficient and effectiveness. The experiments have been performed for the steady-state heat transfer. Experimental data points were gathered for both laminar and turbulent flow, both for co current- and countercurrent flow arrangement. To find optimal heat transfer intensification on the shell-side authors applied the number of transfer units analysis.

Experimental Investigation of Coil Curvature Effect on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics of Shell and Coil Heat Exchanger

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Salem ◽  
K. M. Elshazly ◽  
R. Y. Sakr ◽  
R. K. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Friction Factor ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Average Nusselt Number ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nusselt Numbers ◽  
Fanning Friction Factor ◽  
Coil Heat

The present work experimentally investigates the characteristics of convective heat transfer in horizontal shell and coil heat exchangers in addition to friction factor for fully developed flow through the helically coiled tube (HCT). The majority of previous studies were performed on HCTs with isothermal and isoflux boundary conditions or shell and coil heat exchangers with small ranges of HCT configurations and fluid operating conditions. Here, five heat exchangers of counter-flow configuration were constructed with different HCT-curvature ratios (δ) and tested at different mass flow rates and inlet temperatures of the two sides of the heat exchangers. Totally, 295 test runs were performed from which the HCT-side and shell-side heat transfer coefficients were calculated. Results showed that the average Nusselt numbers of the two sides of the heat exchangers and the overall heat transfer coefficients increased by increasing coil curvature ratio. The average increase in the average Nusselt number is of 160.3–80.6% for the HCT side and of 224.3–92.6% for the shell side when δ increases from 0.0392 to 0.1194 within the investigated ranges of different parameters. Also, for the same flow rate in both heat exchanger sides, the effect of coil pitch and number of turns with the same coil torsion and tube length is remarkable on shell average Nusselt number while it is insignificant on HCT-average Nusselt number. In addition, a significant increase of 33.2–7.7% is obtained in the HCT-Fanning friction factor (fc) when δ increases from 0.0392 to 0.1194. Correlations for the average Nusselt numbers for both heat exchanger sides and the HCT Fanning friction factor as a function of the investigated parameters are obtained.

Review of the Development of Compact, High Performance Heat Exchangers for Gas Turbine Applications

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal R. Herring ◽  
Stephen D. Heister
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Laminar Flow ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Swirl Flow ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
High Heat Transfer

This study provides a review of the current state-of-the-art in compact heat exchangers and their application to gas turbine thermal management. Specifically, the challenges and potential solutions for a cooled cooling air system using the aircraft fuel as a heat sink were analyzed. As the sensible heat absorbed by the fuel in future engines is increased, the fuel will be exposed to increasingly hotter temperatures. This poses a number of design challenges for fuel-air heat exchangers. The most well known challenge is fuel deposition or coking. Another problem encountered at high fuel temperatures is thermo-acoustic oscillations. Thermo-acoustic oscillations have been shown to occur in many fluids when heated near the critical point, yet the mechanism of these oscillations is poorly understood. In some cases these instabilities have been strong enough cause failure in the thin walled tubes used in heat exchangers. For the specific application of a fuel-air heat exchanger, the advantages of a laminar flow device are discussed. These devices make use of the thermal entry region to achieve high heat transfer coefficients. To increase performance further, heat transfer enhancement techniques were reviewed and the feasibility for aerospace heat exchangers was analyzed. Two of the most basic techniques for laminar flow enhancement include tube inserts and swirl flow devices. Additionally, the effects of these devices on both coking and instabilities have been assessed.

scholarly journals Plate heat exchanger design software for industrial and educational applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-449
Author(s):  
Nikola Zlatkovic ◽  
Divna Majstorovic ◽  
Mirjana Kijevcanin ◽  
Emila Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Plate Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Transfer Area ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Plate Heat ◽  
Two Fluids ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Educational Applications

Plate heat exchanger is a type of heat exchanger that uses corrugated metal plates to transfer heat between two fluids. The plate corrugations are designed to achieve turbulence across the entire heat transfer area thus producing the highest possible heat transfer coefficients while allowing close temperature approaches. Subsequently, this leads to a smaller heat transfer area, smaller units and in some cases, fewer heat exchangers. In this work, an application for thermal and hydraulic computations of plate heat exchangers had been developed using Sharp Develop, an open source programming platform. During the development process, several literature methods and correlations for calculation of heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop in a plate heat exchanger have been tested and the selected four methods: Martin, VDI, Kumar and Coulson and Richardson have been incorporated into the software. The structure of the software is visually presented through several windows: a window for inserting input data, windows for showing the results of computation by each of the methods, a window for showing comparative analysis of the most important computation results obtained by all of the used methods and a help window for demonstrating the working principle of plate heat exchanger.

scholarly journals Experimental determination of correlations for mean heat transfer coefficients in plate fin and tube heat exchangers

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawid Taler
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Outlet Temperature ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Nonlinear Regression Method ◽  
Propagation Rule

Abstract This paper presents a numerical method for determining heat transfer coefficients in cross-flow heat exchangers with extended heat exchange surfaces. Coefficients in the correlations defining heat transfer on the liquid- and air-side were determined using a nonlinear regression method. Correlation coefficients were determined from the condition that the sum of squared liquid and air temperature differences at the heat exchanger outlet, obtained by measurements and those calculated, achieved minimum. Minimum of the sum of the squares was found using the Levenberg-Marquardt method. The uncertainty in estimated parameters was determined using the error propagation rule by Gauss. The outlet temperature of the liquid and air leaving the heat exchanger was calculated using the analytical model of the heat exchanger.

The Correlation of Heat Transfer Coefficients for the Laminar Natural Convection in a Circular Finned-Tube Heat Exchanger

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hie Chan Kang ◽  
Se-Myong Chang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Nusselt Number ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Finned Tube ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Laminar Natural Convection

This study proposes an empirical correlation for laminar natural convection applicable to external circular finned-tube heat exchangers with wide range of configuration parameters. The transient temperature response of the heat exchangers was used to obtain the heat transfer coefficient, and the experimental data with their characteristic lengths are discussed. The data lie in the range from 1 to 1000 for Rayleigh numbers based on the fin spacing: the ratio of fin height to tube diameter ranges from 0.1 to 0.9, and the ratio of fin pitch to height ranges from 0.13 to 2.6. Sixteen sets of finned-tube electroplated with nickel–chrome were tested. The convective heat transfer coefficients on the heat exchangers were measured by elimination of the thermal radiation effect from the heat exchanger surfaces. The Nusselt number was correlated with a newly suggested composite curve formula, which converges to the quarter power of the Rayleigh number for a single cylinder case. The proposed characteristic length for the Rayleigh number is the fin pitch while that for the Nusselt number is mean flow length, defined as half the perimeter of the mean radial position inside the flow region bounded by the tube surface and two adjacent fins. The flow is regarded as laminar, which covers heat exchangers from a single horizontal cylinder to infinite parallel disks. Consequently, the result of curve fitting for the experimental data shows the reasonable physical interpretation as well as the good quantitative agreement with the correction factors.

scholarly journals Review: Observation on CFD Analysis of ZnO and TiO2 Nanofluid with Oil and Ethylene Glycol in Square and Helical Coil Heat Exchanger

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 503-507
Author(s):  
Rakesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Helical Coil ◽  
Coiled Tube ◽  
Heat Transfer Fluids ◽  
Nano Fluid ◽  
High Heat Transfer ◽  
Compact Size ◽  
Coil Heat

Abstract: Helically coiled heat exchangers are globally used in various industrial applications for their high heat transfer performance and compact size. Nanofluids can provide the excellent thermal performance in helical coil heat exchangers. Research studies on heat transfer enhancement have gained serious momentum during recent years and have been proposed many techniques by different research groups [1]. A fluid with higher thermal conductivity has been developed to increase the efficiency of heat exchangers. The dispersion of 1-100nm sized solid nanoparticles in the traditional heat transfer fluids, termed as nanofluids, exhibit substantial higher convective heat transfer than that of traditional heat transfer fluids. Nanofluid is a heat transfer fluid which is the combination of nanoparticles and base fluid that can improve the performance of heat exchanger systems. In this present paper the efforts are made to understand that how to compare the heat transfer rate in Copper helically coiled tube and squared coiled tube heat exchanger using Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide Nano fluid by studying research papers of various authors. Keywords: Helical Coil, Nano-fluid, Heat Exchanger, CFD, Pressure Drop, Temperature Distribution.

scholarly journals Experimental Investigation on Triple Concentric Tube Heat Exchanger with Helical Baffles

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Rohit Kumar Gaur ◽  
Dr. Shashi Kumar Jain ◽  
Dr. Sukul Lomash
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Tube Heat Exchanger ◽  
High Heat Transfer

A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer thermal energy between two or more liquids, between a solid surface and a liquid, or between solid particles and a liquid at different temperatures and in thermal contact where shell and tube heat exchangers contain a large number of tubes packed in a jacket whose axes are parallel to those of the shell. Heat transfer occurs when one fluid flows into the pipes while the other flows out of the pipes through the jacket. In industry, three-tube heat exchanger tubes are used as condensers, evaporators, sub cooler, heat recovery heat exchangers, etc. The three concentric tube heat exchanger is a constructively modified version of the double concentric tube heat exchanger as an intermediate tube adds some advantages over the double tube heat exchangers in that it is larger tube surface area heat transfer per unit of length.  In the present study, the triple tube heat exchanger is further modified by inserting helical baffle over the surface of one of the tubes and observed turbulence flow which may lead to high heat transfer rates between the fluids of heat exchanger. Further, the Reynolds number, Nusselt number, friction factor of the flow at different mass flow rates of the hot fluid while keeping a constant mass flow rate of cold and normal temperature fluids were calculated. It was found that as the mass flow rate of the fluid increases the Reynolds number increases, the turbulence in the flow will increase which will cause the intermixing of the fluid, higher the rate of intermixing, more will be the heat transfer of the system.  

Experimental Study and Genetic-Algorithm-Based Correlation on Shell-Side Heat Transfer and Flow Performance of Three Different Types of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (9) ◽  
pp. 1277-1285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiu-wang Wang ◽  
Gong-nan Xie ◽  
Bo-tao Peng ◽  
Min Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Shell Side ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Friction Factors ◽  
Shell And Tube

The heat transfer and pressure drop of three types of shell-and-tube heat exchangers, one with conventional segmental baffles and the other two with continuous helical baffles, were experimentally measured with water flowing in the tube side and oil flowing in the shell side. The genetic algorithm has been used to determine the coefficients of correlations. It is shown that under the identical mass flow, a heat exchanger with continuous helical baffles offers higher heat transfer coefficients and pressure drop than that of a heat exchanger with segmental baffles, while the shell structure of the side-in-side-out model offers better performance than that of the middle-in-middle-out model. The predicted heat transfer rates and friction factors by means of the genetic algorithm provide a closer fit to experimental data than those determined by regression analysis. The predicted corrections of heat transfer and flow performance in the shell sides may be used in engineering applications and comprehensive study. It is recommended that the genetic algorithm can be used to handle more complicated problems and to obtain the optimal correlations.

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